Essay on The Truth

At first,when I read this book’s summary, I thought it would be a childish book that the kid and the dog run away to a magical land and live happily ever after. Boy, I was wrong!

In “We Were Liars” by E. Lockhart, the reader is taken on a summer vacation trip to Beechwood Island with Cadence Sinclair, to feel what it's like to have the same struggles of a teenage girl whose memories of "Summer Fifteen" are nearly impossible to remember, and whose "perfect" family is falling apart. At first impression, you would think that Cady has it good in life. She comes from a wealthy family, who maintain traditions, and she has a summer boyfriend. However, the further you read, it is later revealed that all those things are reasons why she becomes so miserable by the end of the book. There is more to this book than just syntax, characterization, and figurative language. We Were Liars is a novel with many uses of literary devices, and good use of it too.

There remains doubt in how much the human mind really knows; what is known and how the mind is capable of knowing it. In philosophical skepticism, it is asserted that we know little to nothing about the world external of our senses. Anything claimed to be knowledge retains the possibility of doubt, even that which is used as justification for obtaining that piece (or pieces) of knowledge. There is a problem that arises when considering the external world, which is of obtaining and being able to offer sufficient justification for “commonsense” belief.

American author Jodi Picoult’s novel Plain Truth (2001) takes place in the Amish community. It is about an eighteen-year-old Amish girl, Katie Fisher, who is charged with the murder of her newborn son. As Katie’s trial is set, her distant relative Ellie Hathaway steps in as her defense attorney. The bail conditions require Ellie to remain on the farm with Katie for the duration of the trial, forcing Ellie to return to the Amish society that she left behind long ago. Serving as an in-depth exploration of the Amish culture and its interaction with the American justice system, and exploring themes of devotion, religious conflict, and motherhood, Plain Truth received mixed, but overall positive, reviews from critics, including being named Book

Develop clarity of thought. Do not be confused by ideology and self-ego. Simplicity is the secret to understanding the truth.

Nearly everything we say and read has been affected by opinion or perspective. Suppose you examine a lemon. One person might define it as sour, juicy, and yellow. This description is known as your truth claim, but what if someone else describes it as blue because they are unaware of their color blindness. Both people can argue that they are telling the truth because it is based on their own opinion. Now let’s imagine that we are all knowingly colorblind. No one has access to the true color of the lemon. The lemon is yellow, but we believe it’s blue. In this case, truth is impossible to define because one cannot understand what they can’t actually see. You cannot define what the truth is without knowing all the

Absolute Truth and Personal Belief are like the structure of a complex sentence. Absolute Truth functions as the subject in a stand-alone sentence, while Personal Belief serves as the predicate to the truth a person holds dear. People are not always aware of these two natural functions in their daily lives. Absolute Truth is the honest reality of a situation or circumstance, while Personal Belief is the acceptance by the mind that something is true; but the question is, between truth and belief, which is more important?

Truth is simply the body of real things, events and facts about something, either a transcendent fundamental or spiritual reality. It can also be a judgment, preposition or idea that is true or accepted as true. Each and every one of us has to live with the truth for our entire lifetime. At a point in our lives, we all have to lie which eventually results to conflict and for the conflict to be resolved, we need to reinstate the truth. “The truth doesn’t need to prove itself; it exist whether we believe in it or not” (58). Virtual truth is based on believing what is real; the earth is round, there is no debate and it would be a waste of time to challenge this truth because it is in its purest form and we see everything just as it is. The point of this is for us to be aware of the difference between the real truth and virtual truth. The Five agreement that Don Miguel Ruiz and Don Jose Ruiz with Janet Mills describe in their book,

Stephanie Klein once said, “Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.” This quote relates to Charles Van Doren and “Twenty-One, ” a famous quiz show from the 1950’s. The scandal involved more than one player receiving answers from producer, Dan Enright. This is a very well known quiz show scandal from the 1950’s. Charles Van Doren should be held accountable for his actions because, he had knowledge of what was going on, he actively searched for answers, and he lied to people about what was happening.

Then each time you find the truth of an object or subject, you simply release the false impression and allow the truth of what you have found to fill its place. Then one by one, truth by truth, the complete picture will reveal itself until you

Hence, we can conclude that the truth is an objective dogma that does not affect by other factors, while knowledge, or “fact” by Nietzsche’s word, is an interpretation of truth, which may modified by future discovery or different perspective. By defining truth as this, now I can evaluate how can the ways of knowing lead us to truth.

In The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde, Algernon tells Jack that “The truth is rarely pure and never simple” and because the truth is this way, it makes “modern literature a complete impossibility” (10). Throughout this play, all the characters try to find their own truths, some by bunburying and others by writing their own truths. Either way, Wilde makes the truth about his characters nuanced and ambiguous, which in turn allows his audience to question his true intentions for The Importance of Being Earnest. For the characters, the truth is hard to figure out because there is confusion between things being serious or trivial. This confusion is the source of inspiration for the characters to create their own truths, which are clearer,

Truth can be defined as conformity to reality or actuality and in order for something to be “true” it must be public, eternal, and independent. If the “truth” does not follow these guidelines then it cannot be “true.” Obviously in contrary anything that goes against the boundaries of “truth” is inevitably false. True and false, in many cases does not seem to be a simple black and white situation, there could sometimes be no grounds to decide what is true and what is false. All truths are a matter of opinion. Truth is relative to culture, historical era, language, and society. All the truths that we know are subjective truths (i.e. mind-dependent truths) and there is nothing more to truth than what we are willing to assert as true

Through out history, as man progressed from a primitive animal to a "human being" capable of thought and reason, mankind has had to throw questions about the meaning of our own existence to ourselves. Out of those trail of thoughts appeared religion, art, and philosophy, the fundamental process of questioning about existence. Who we are, how we came to be, where we are going, what the most ideal state is....... All these questions had to be asked and if not given a definite answer, then at least given some idea as to how to begin to search for, as humans probed deeper and deeper into the riddle that we were all born into.

As the great Socrates ones said, that by admiting that you dont know anything, so you can learn something that is how I discover the things that I want to know. The only way of knowing things is the way of becoming conscious of our unknowing, so we can learn. Awareness of the unknowing is the beginning of knowledge. Thus, we can always look for the truth, but the best is if never said that we found it. We may just think of the truth. We may think of what is the truth different in mathematics, the arts and ethics, but let’s never be sure. That is the only way how we are going to become bigger and better people.